Texture-based identification of urban slums in Hyderabad, India using remote sensing data

This paper outlines a methodology to identify informal settlements out of high resolution satellite imagery using the concept of lacunarity. Principal component analysis and line detection algorithms were applied alternatively to obtain a high resolution binary representation of the city of Hyderaba...

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Main Authors: Kit, Oleksandr (Author), Lüdeke, Matthias (Author), Reckien, Diana (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012-03.
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